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onerous

Law (of a contract, lease, etc.) having or involving burdens or obligations that counterbalance or outweigh the advantages
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The NFA instituted an onerously high tax on the transfer of items included under its purview, and required registration of those items to verify the taxes paid.
The path culminating in the Treaty on European Union (in 1992) was onerously laden with Britain's reservations, concerns, and objections.
I've heard many anecdotes about high certification costs, dubious scorecard points and an onerously complex system.
Concomitantly, banks and other financial institutions are facing new, complex, onerously challenging, and often contradictory regulatory, supervisory, auditory, and compliance challenges.
It is to the credit of Harris that he presents these issues in a highly skillful manner that doesn't make the mistake of sounding onerously preachy.
When they enter in the company, assets are evaluated and recorded in the accounting at their entry value, which is determined as per the purchase cost--for assets bought onerously or as per the production cost--for assets produced by the entity" (7).
(261) Along similar lines, Irving has noted that making legal citizenship rights contingent upon the performance of legal duties incumbent upon all persons regardless of citizenship status may generate a system in which citizens are more onerously penalised than non-citizens for breaching such duties.
According to this text, the approval of the action of donation revocation has no effect on the real goods obtained with good faith and onerously by the third parties, on the donated good and on the guarantees.
At this hour, everything became onerously unnecessary: the vague twilight, the vapor, the stars' distant discipline.
His bibliography is extensive, but the text and footnotes failed to point me to which of the "thousands of books" on Dreyfus so onerously downplayed the antisemitism behind his false accusation.